Over the last 2 or three years, I’ve paid a few visits to a local zoo (Banham Zoo). There’s a real challenge in trying to take pictures that don’t give away the fact that they were taken in a zoo setting, especially if they have to be taken through fences or glass. It’s not always...
The flight from Gatwick to The Gambia takes you over the Atlas Mountains and the Western Sahara and on our trip last year I was mesmerised by the beautiful abstract patterns of the never-ending & stark landscape below us. So I was determined to have my camera at hand during the flight this year –...
When I was a kid, I used to love the phrase “sky blue pink”: it sounded like the nicest colour on the planet, or maybe a description of the nicest place. It always made me feel cheerful. That phrase immediately came to mind when I started working on these sunset and sunrise images from our...
Charlie the Crocodile, that is. Not far from Banjul, the capital of The Gambia, is a town called Bakau, in which you will find the Kachikally Crocodile Pool. The most famous resident there is, apparently, called Charlie. Charlie and his chums are so tame that they can be petted. Yes I did. Briefly. Very briefly....
